Coming up this Thursday morning on Central Vermont Community Radio — people-powered road closures and people-powered energy co-ops.

9:00 - 10:00 am
A several-mile stretch of County Road in East Montpelier was torn up for months last year during a construction project—and when it was finished, resident Larry Gilbert led an effort to close it again for a Sunday morning in November. People on foot, bikes, and other non-motorized vehicles played on the road for three hours. Now he's proposing to make Sunday morning closures a regular monthly event in 2023. We'll talk about the idea in the context of increasing number of road closures/parties around the world.

In November, a guest from Sweden told us about a solar energy co-op he helps run; the solar panel is built on a reclaimed landfill site. This week, we'll get a perspective on citizen-run energy co-ops around Europe from Jenny Palm at Lund University.

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, and more.

Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org With on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at archive.wgdr.org

Event Info

Nov 5, 2024, 7 to 7:45 AM

Nov 8, 2024, 5:30 to 7 PM

Nov 9, 2024, 6 to 9 PM